A little anecdote from my weekend that I think can be applied to investing;The dog in the picture is a pitbull named Blue. While watching bowl games and reading Barron's on Saturday afternoon our dogs starting barking up a storm as they occasionally do. I went outside and there was Blue on the other side of our fence.
I went outside the fence and Blue came right up to me. I brought him in to where the dogs could sniff through the little gate you see in the picture and because the barking was more "hey I want to meet you" as opposed to "hey I want to kill you" I let Blue in to meet everyone and it went just fine, actually he fit in better than Wiley (dog number six who after a year and half still doesn't quite fit).
Blue had a tag with his name and a number in Phoenix so I left a message hoping the people would check their phone once the realized Blue was gone. I then called Joellyn who was where she is almost every Saturday, a UAF adoption event at Petco, to tell her what was up and see if maybe she knew the dog (not impossible) but she did not.
I took Blue out for about half an hour walking around the mountain to see if anyone was looking for him, I ran into people here and there but no one knew Blue. I brought Blue back and we all hung out for a while, he was so well adjusted he was even able to eat with everyone for our normal 3pm feeding time .
Our neighbor, also a dog person, coincidentally had an errand at Petco. Joellyn told our neighbor about Blue because maybe the neighbor knew the dog (not impossible) but no dice. As our neighbor was just about to drive up the road we live on as she was coming home she ran into people looking for the dog. One thing lead to another and she was taking Blue back down the hill for me to the dog's owner (the owner did not have a four wheel drive vehicle and you need one in the winter to get up our road) for a happy outcome.
There were several things in this little story that had to go just so for Blue to be returned so quickly (this all transpired over the course of two hours). Take from this whatever you think can be applied.
Enjoy the football.
3 comments:
Nice work! Kudos to you...
Great story....would like to add dogs should have a chip -vet tag, double brass name plates with address,cell #, email, owner name...SOP for my bird dogs
Everyone here has a tag but only Roscoe is chipped.
Our tags come from a company called Boomerang. The tags slide onto the collar as opposed to dangling from the collar so they can't fall off. You can google them if that doesn't makes sense.
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